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Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
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Showing posts with label Journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journalism. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Lisa Murray Gregory interviews my boss, Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times

Lisa Murray Gregory interviews my boss, Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times

Hat Tip: Lisa Murray Gregory. The Human Condition with Lisa Gregory

How Journalism is Changing in Today's World NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In today's world journalism has become a risky business. Newspapers are closing up shop every day in light of the digital age and in many ways it seems the profession is under attack both figuratively and literally. Reporters are being gunned down in newsrooms and the public is becoming more and more suspicious of the profession as the result of the concept of fake news. Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times in Maryland and has been in the journalism field first as a sports reporter and now as an editor for over 20 years. He is experiencing these concerns firsthand and yet remains committed to the idea of community journalism and the important role it continues to play in our lives.

The profession of journalism is in a precarious state these days as a result of the concept of "fake news," the influence of social media and the threat to the very existence of print media as a result of the digital age.

Bob Blubaugh, editor of the Carroll County Times in Maryland, recently talked with me for my first episode of The Human Condition with Lisa Gregory. He gives an insider's view of the challenges editors and reporters are facing, including the very real threats and violence inflicted upon on them, as well as talking about his love of community journalism and how important it is now more than ever.

Please view my podcast at thehumanconditionpodcast.com.



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Friday, November 16, 2018

CJR by Karen K. Ho: Former Globe and Mail reporter on resigning over race dispute

Former Globe and Mail reporter on resigning over race dispute

‘It all played out very suddenly’: Former Globe and Mail reporter on resigning over race dispute


Fascinating read: 15Nov2018 CJR by Karen K. Ho: Sunny Dhillon was a reporter with The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. Since 2010, he’d worked out of the Vancouver office; in October, shortly after a civic election, he quit. He explained why in a piece for Medium, Journalism While Brown and When to Walk Away: in an article about the new city council—composed mostly of white women—Dhillon wanted to focus on the lack of diversity (Vancouver is 45 percent Asian) but his bureau chief overruled him. The essay, on the challenges he and other journalists of color experience in predominantly white newsrooms… Read more here: https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/globe-and-mail-sunny-dhillon.php
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Monday, July 09, 2018

Gerald Fischman remembered by former Carroll County Times writers


Gerald Fischman remembered by former Carroll County Times writers

Many folks who worked at the Carroll County Times in the 1980s with Gerald Fischman attended his funeral service on Sunday, July 8, 2018.

Writers such as Doug Tallman, Peter Khoury, Debbie Funk, Dennis McCafferty, and Lloyd Batzler.

Tallman wrote for the paper from 1985-87. Tallman now writes for Montgomery Community Media. Khoury was a cops, courts, and crime reporter from 1986-88. He now writes with the New York Times. Funk wrote for the paper from 1985-87. McCafferty was with the paper from 1986-88. McCafferty was with the Carroll County Times from 1986-88. He later moved on the Atlanta Journal Constitution and is presently vice president of content at Welz & Weisel Communications.

Gerald Fischman funeral service - Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun: Olney, MD - 07/08/18 -- Mourners, including many current and former Capital Gazette colleagues of slain editor Gerald Fischman, walk to the graveside after the chapel service at Judean Memorial Gardens. Gerald Fischman was one of five staffers killed in a mass shooting at the Capital office in Annapolis on June 28


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Time Flies Dayhoff: In the aftermath of the Gazette murders, we must do better


Time Flies Dayhoff: In the aftermath of yet another mass murder, we must do better by Kevin Dayhoff July 4, 2018

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The world of journalism is a small world. In one way or another, we all know each other. Of the five, Gerald Fischman had a local connection. He was an editorial page editor for the Carroll County Times in the 1980s. He worked at the paper with several good friends.

One of those friends got in touch as the events unfolded and reminded me that he covered my work in the community in those days. I certainly did not know him well, but knowing him put a face on this tragedy. I worked on several environmental initiatives in the 1980s for county and state government.

In his capacity as a reporter and an editorial writer, he covered my work. He was a good guy who always got it right. Some of the initiatives that I worked on in those days were not really popular. Some of the public hearings and letters to the editor were difficult, but Mr. Fischman was always fair, meticulous, patient, and accessible – if not indeed supportive.




Find it here on the Carroll County Times Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cctnews/posts/10156744145357018. Many of my critics are amateurs compared to some of these trolls. 
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

The best and worst journalism of 2015 - Columbia Journalism Review

The best and worst journalism of 2015 - Columbia Journalism Review:

By David Uberti, CJR

DECEMBER 8, 2015

"IT’S BEEN A STANDOUT YEAR for journalism—and a disappointing one. CJR discussed the most important media stories and trends of 2015, good and bad, compiled below. "

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_best_and_worst_journalism_of_2015.php

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Monday, November 23, 2015

Journalist Memorial - Mon., Nov. 23, 2015 visit to the Newseum in Washington DC. Made me really sad.


Journalist Memorial - Mon., Nov. 23, 2015 visit to the Newseum in Washington DC. Made me really sad.

Journalism, Journalists, Journalists memorial, Journalism Newseum, #amwriting, 



Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The Washington Post is reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward shot and killed during a live interview in southwest-Virginia


The Washington Post is reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward shot and killed during a live interview in southwest-Virginia


This is nuts.... Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and colleagues of Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward who were shot and killed during a live interview on TV this morning in at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, which is located in Franklin County in southwest-Virginia.

According to an article in the Washington Post by By Dana Hedgpeth August 26 at 8:56 AM: “CBS News said in a Twitter message that a gunman killed a reporter and a videographer in a shooting while they were doing a live TV report in Southwest Virginia.”


The Washington Post is reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward shot and killed during a live interview in southwest-Virginia #WDBJTV http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/08/wdbj-tv-journalists-alison-parker-and.html

Washington Post reporting WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker & Adam Ward shot & killed #WDBJTV http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/08/wdbj-tv-journalists-alison-parker-and.html

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The Washington Post
News Alert
Wed., Aug. 26, 2015 12:09 p.m.
Suspect in death of TV news crew shoots self
Vester Lee Flanagan, the suspect in the fatal shooting of two television station reporters in Southwest Virginia, shot himself on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County. His condition wasn't immediately known.

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson

Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/1990/11/november-02-1990-obits-and-news-by.html

November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson


NEW YORK. — New York. - IN JANUARY 1928, they electrocuted Ruth Snyder, the first woman sent to the chair in New York. Most of Manhattan's newspapers ran columns of purple prose about it. Page 1 of the Daily News told the story in one word and one picture.

The word, in huge type, was DEAD! The blurred picture below it was of Snyder at the instant the shock hit her -- taken by photographer Tom Howard with a hidden camera strapped to his ankle.

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That may have been the News' most famous front page, at least until the one in 1975 when the president refused to bail the city out of its financial crunch. The headline that day was was FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.

The word ''dead'' has figured often in the 71-year-history of the News; the paper has specialized in crime reporting, and printed the best. But for the past week, since a long-feared strike began, some of its own employees have become actors instead of narrators in a running crime story.

Starting with the first editions after the strike began, competing papers have covered it as if the News itself were on its death bed, as it may be. There are three tabloids in New York, and the common wisdom is that not more than two can survive. If the strike and management's determination to break the unions does kill the News, one of those rivals might have the bad taste to run its own gleeful headline proclaiming the News DEAD!

That would be the Post, once stodgily liberal, now wackily conservative, catering to readers downscale from the News' hard-core blue-collar fans. The other, more upscale, is New York Newsday, the Manhattan sister of Long Island's Newsday (owned by Times-Mirror, which also owns the Baltimore Sun).


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Saturday, July 25, 2015

We Bid Farewell to Aaron Wilson | Russell Street Report

We Bid Farewell to Aaron Wilson | Russell Street Report:

Sad for us. Great for the Houston Chronicle. SMH. I wish we could keep talent like this in Maryland.

LOMBARDI'S WAY

We Bid Farewell to Aaron Wilson

Tony Lombardi Posted 14 minutes ago in LOMBARDI'S WAY

http://russellstreetreport.com/2015/07/25/lombardis-way/we-bid-farewell-to-aaron-wilson/

"Back in 2005 I approached Aaron Wilson, then a beat writer for the Carroll County Times covering the Baltimore Ravens, about collaborating in some way. I sought to bring more volume and legitimacy to Ravens24x7.com and who better to do that than Wilson?

Since Aaron’s first assignment in Baltimore covering the 2001 NFL Draft, he has always been a beast with a work ethic second to none. His tenacity and tirelessness command the respect of his peers, the team he covers and of course the many fans who consider him to be the premier source for Ravens information.

With the permission of the Carroll County Times, specifically Aaron’s editor Bob Blubaugh, we were able to work out a mutually beneficial partnership."

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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

‘A Fragile Trust’ exhibits irresponsibility behind Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal - The Washington Post

‘A Fragile Trust’ exhibits irresponsibility behind Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal - The Washington Post:

By Published: May 5


http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-fragile-trust-exhibits-irresponsibility-behind-jayson-blair-plagiarism-scandal/2014/05/05/596aca28-d45d-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html

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I’d awakened absurdly early in Miami, where I was The Washington Post’s Southern bureau chief, to catch a flight to Texas. I was supposed to write a piece about the family of the last missing U.S. soldier after the fall of Iraq, a 24-year-old Army mechanic named Edward Anguiano. But when I fished the New York Times off my front porch and sleepily scanned the headlines, there was my story — my story! — on the front page of the competition. I barely recognized the byline.

It was some guy named Jayson Blair.

My lousy day got lousier once I arrived in Anguiano’s home town of Los Fresnos, a speck on the map near the Mexican border at the southern tip of Texas. Anguiano’s mother, who had earlier agreed to an interview, blew me off. While I waited at a gas station for her to call me back, I flipped through a folder of background reading. Something bothered me about one of the articles: a San Antonio Express-News piece about Anguiano. But I couldn’t figure out why... http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-fragile-trust-exhibits-irresponsibility-behind-jayson-blair-plagiarism-scandal/2014/05/05/596aca28-d45d-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

This blog post won’t be shared on Facebook, and I should be worried

This blog post won’t be shared on Facebook, and I should be worried:

This blog post won’t be shared on Facebook, and I should be worried

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Journalism can never be silent: That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” — Henry Anatole Grunwald That’s a popular quote on journalism from the one-time editor of Time magazine. […]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/03/13/this-blog-post-wont-be-shared-on-facebook-and-i-should-be-worried/?wpisrc=nl_inn
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Friday, March 21, 2014

L'Wren Scott, and the awful truth about women's obituaries-Well written By Stassa Edwards March 20, 2014 Just saying

L'Wren Scott, and the awful truth about women's obituaries-Well written By Stassa Edwards March 20, 2014 Just saying


Coverage of the fashion designer's passing was just the latest example of a sad journalistic tradition

By Stassa Edwards March 20, 2014

When news broke that respected fashion designer L'Wren Scott had passed away on Monday, The New York Times noted her suicide with the regrettable headline "Mick Jagger's Girlfriend Found Dead."

The Times wasn't alone in its faux pas; the Associated Press dutifully tweeted, "BREAKING: Law enforcement: Mick Jagger' [sic] girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, found dead in NYC of possible suicide." Though the AP managed to slip Scott's name in the headline of the report, both news organizations seemed to agree: Scott's death was newsworthy only because of her romantic association with a legendary rock and roller. Editors at neither The New York Times nor the Associated Press seemed to grasp that Scott's untimely death was newsworthy because of her professional accomplishments.

One would think that after the stroganoff incident, the Gray Lady in particular would have found a better way to note the passing of accomplished women, but it clearly hasn't. The poor handling of Scott's death speaks more broadly to the difficulty of recounting a woman's life — namely the determination of a hierarchy of facts, a project that should seem gender neutral but rarely is. It often seems natural enough to define women by their relationships — wife, mother, girlfriend, etc. — and let famous men be memorialized for their accomplishments, their family lives taking a backseat. This was certainly the case with the aforementioned stroganoff incident, in which the Times' obituary writers downgraded Yvette Brill from rocket scientist to pretty good cook.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Introducing 'AnonyWatch': Tracking Nameless Quotations in The Times

Introducing 'AnonyWatch': Tracking Nameless Quotations in The Times (NYT / Public Editor's Journal) 

New York Times columnist Margaret Sullivan launched an effort Tuesday to point out some of the more regrettable examples of anonymous quotations in the TimesMediaite An initial example of the pervasive phenomenon is Ginia Bellafante's column about Mayor Bill de Blasio's trip to Albany in which a "Democratic insider" says the mayor thinks he and the New York governor are friends "but Andrew Cuomo doesn't really have friends." FishbowlNY 

Another article Sullivan called out was even worse. In a piece on the Malaysian Airlines plane, an anonymous quote was issued on an anonymously sourced theory that someone on the plane made abrupt shifts in altitude to "depressurize the cabin and render the passengers and crew unconscious." 
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Monday, March 17, 2014

LA Times Fires Reporter for Inappropriate Relationship And Big Error (LA Times)


Hat Tip: Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed

The Los Angeles Times dismissed an investigative reporter Friday after discovering he had an inappropriate relationship with someone who was a source for a front-page story that the newspaper says contained an error.

The editor's note read, "A front-page article in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 7, 2013, was incorrect in reporting that Occidental College failed to disclose 27 alleged sexual assaults that occurred in 2012."

Separately, as they began looking into the complaint, Times editors learned from the author of the articles, staff writer Jason Felch, that he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with someone who was a source for the Dec. 7 story and others.

Poynter / MediaWire The college approached the paper for a correction and the Times reviewed documents showing the 27 cases did not fall under the disclosure requirement, the paper said. Some were sexual harassment cases or inappropriate text messages, which are not covered by the act.


The Los Angeles Times fired investigative reporter Jason Felch after he disclosed he had “engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with someone who was a source for a Dec. 7 story on Occidental College’s handling of sexual assault allegations.

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The Associated Press said Felch issued a statement in which the reporter asserted the Dec. 7 story ran weeks before the relationship began and that he stopped using the source during their relationship.

While he issued a mea culpa: “I accept full responsibility for what I did and regret the damage it has done to my family and my colleagues at one of the nation’s great newspapers,” he also said he thought he was fired for the appearance of a conflict of interest.



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NYT Felch was dismissed Friday, March 14. Felch, 40, said by email on Sunday that Occidental had declined opportunities to comment on the initial article before publication, or to make officials available to be interviewed.


The first article was published before the relationship with the source began, Felch said. He said he did not rely on the person, who was not named by him or the newspaper, as a source after that. He did not describe the nature of the relationship. He was fired, he said, "for creating the appearance of a conflict of interest."
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

Authors at Nora Roberts Writing Institute 'help beginning writers get established' - herald-mail.com

New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe

BREAKING NEWSSaturday, August 3, 2013 2:45 AM EDT
New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe
The New York Times Company said on Saturday that it had agreed to sell The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership after two decades in which it struggled to stem the decline in circulation and revenue.
Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, confirmed that Mr. Henry would pay $70 million for the paper. That would represent a staggering drop in value for the Globe, which The Times bought in 1993 for $1.1 billion, the highest price paid for an American newspaper.

READ MORE »

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/media/new-york-times-company-sells-boston-globe.html?emc=edit_na_20130803&_r=0
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Friday, June 21, 2013

News Items: Chicago Sun-Times cuts entire photography staff.

Yet Another Blow To American Journalism

June 12, 2013 By Kellia Ramares-Watson

Again the Profit Motive Prefers Cheap Over Craft

News Items: Chicago Sun-Times cuts entire photography staff. While the company, which has been trying to revive its profits, still will hire professional freelance photographers for coverage, it will increasingly rely on reporters to take photos and video to accompany their stories.

Chicago Sun-Times will train reporters on ‘iPhone photography basics’ … a memo from Editor Craig Newman: “In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need.”

There are two major groups of repercussions to the Chicago story: What this means for journalism, especially photojournalism itself, and what this move says about the economy as a whole.

- See more at: http://www.leftistreview.com/2013/06/12/yet-another-blow-to-american-journalism/kelliaramares/?goback=%2Egde_79756_member_250218951#sthash.iHkOhQA4.dpuf ...

http://www.leftistreview.com/2013/06/12/yet-another-blow-to-american-journalism/kelliaramares/?goback=%2Egde_79756_member_250218951
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Disable Paste Options In Word 2010


Disable Paste Options In Word 2010

Accessed March 12, 2013

Oh my goodness do I ever find Microsoft Word annoying - if not insufferable... http://www.word-2010.com/disable-paste-options-in-word-2010/  I finally broke down and actually searched on the web for a solution to the lastest of so many annoying ways MS Word makes my life difficult by "helping me." #@!%$##!!!


By default, when you paste text that you have copied from elsewhere, the paste options toolbar appears. Small though it is, many people feel that this panel is an intrusion and that often it gets in the way of other text on the page… http://www.word-2010.com/disable-paste-options-in-word-2010/
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Westminster Maryland Online: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Attribute - FishbowlDC:

Westminster Maryland Online: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Att...: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Attribute - FishbowlDC : ANALYSIS ,  FAIL WaPo’s  Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t ...




"WaPo‘s flagship gossip column “The Reliable Source” isn’t exactly setting a good example these days. Sure, we know it’s loathsome to have to attribute to someone else.

But that’s the breaks and the way it goes if you want to be respected by your peers.



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